Flagrance

As an old concept, I drew it as tribute to those teenage ideas. The lineart for this bird was drawn and inked in a night in Summer 2013. However, it took about a month to get the coloring done for the first time, and I corrected the colors several more times afterwards.

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The genderless bird is one of my older characters, first created when I was 14. It is the personification of a person’s first real love, of an impassioned obsession that comes to be ingrained. It is a huge and haughty bird (the ‘old money’ of passions), and it is a bit indignant that the subjects it represents should be usurped by newer interests. It doesn’t really have a name. Though its species is hard to discern, the bird’s tail plumage is its defining characteristic. The feathers flow around the bird, and they retract and curl when the bird is under emotional strain. Normally I depict it with a stork-like neck, but this picture is an anomaly with a more sparrow-like body.

The finished bird, in Feb. 2015.
An earlier version with a darker background.
Some other earlier versions:
The progress animation for this bird takes several turns to get to its final destination.

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